{"product_id":"understanding-rainer-werner-fassbinder-wallace-steadman-watson-9781570030796","title":"Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Film as Private and Public Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive, balanced review of Fassbinder's life and career\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder\u003c\/i\u003e introduces scholars and students to the controversial and prolific but brief career of a filmmaker hailed as one of the New German Cinema's most talented exponents. Combining a chronological survey with a thematic exploration, Wallace Steadman Watson reviews the entirety of Fassbinder's artistic output, focusing specifically on fifteen of the filmmaker's thirty-eight feature-length works. Watson's interpretations of these films, all of which he studied in Germany, scrutinize the financial constraints, material conditions, and script development involved in their production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatson draws on a wide assortment of Fassbinder interviews--many of which are not available in English--and on theoretical and critical approaches employed in the Frankfort School, performance and reception theories, gay and lesbian film theory, and studies of melodrama and camp. Watson also incorporates his own interviews with Fassbinder's mother and with the woman who served as Fassbinder's film editor and companion during the final four years of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wallace Steadman Watson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1570030790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570030796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.34w x 1.31d","brand":"Wallace Steadman Watson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013981876479,"sku":"9781570030796","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8fc0d4f8-ff02-4ca4-8213-2e268acd319e.jpg?v=1767745980","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/understanding-rainer-werner-fassbinder-wallace-steadman-watson-9781570030796","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}